A Clinical Outcome Responder was defined as a patient with all of the following: normal vaginal discharge, negative 10 percent KOH Whiff test; and clue cells less than 20 percent of the total epithelial cells on microscopic examination.

It is obvious that if clue cells are seen they are covered with tiny rods, but it seems to have always been procedure in our lab not to give them recognition in the microscopic results other than to name them as clue cells.

All women at risk for preterm labor should be screened for BV, and if clue cells are present, the patient should be treated, he said, noting that his preferred agent for treating BV is oral metronidazole.

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